(a) The instrument is voluntary and non legally binding

The Declaration is in no way legally binding on China.

Non legally binding instrument on all types of forests

(k) A legally binding instrument such as a stand alone convention.

62 98. Non legally binding instrument on all types of forests

These steps could take the form of an internationally legally binding instrument.

international community does not have the time to negotiate and bring to fruition a LBI.

(j) A legally binding instrument such as a framework convention, with provisions for subsequent protocols

It is noted that coordination and cooperation would be strengthened if there were a legally binding agreement on forests.

The European Union as a whole supports the idea of a legally binding instrument that also includes small arms and light weapons ammunition.

relevant footnote Stockholm Convention, Article 7 Report of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for an International Legally Binding Instrument for Implementing International Action on Certain Persistent Organic Pollutants on the work of its sixth session (UNEP POPS INC.6 22), annex I, decision INC 6 6 Report of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the work of its seventh session (UNEP POPS INC.7 28), annex I, decision INC 7

(i) A non legally binding instrument such as an enriched and stronger version of the current international arrangement on forests

Option 2 A non legally binding instrument (NLBI) such as an enriched and stronger version of the current International Arrangement on Forest

(d) Working Group on a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearances.

A new legally binding instrument on marking and tracing will greatly facilitate the eradication of small arms and light weapons.

Throughout this process, Norway's priority has been to contribute to the elaboration of an effective, legally binding instrument in the form of a convention on human cloning.

The Trafficking in Persons Protocol constitutes the first legally binding global instrument with an agreed definition of the term trafficking in persons .

The Conference on Disarmament should establish a subsidiary body as soon as possible to draft a legally binding instrument on negative security assurances.

Without providing adequate and universally acceptable solutions to this situation, any proposal contemplating a new legally binding instrument on forests is unnecessary.

It also supported the negotiation of a universal and legally binding instrument that provided security guarantees of non use of nuclear weapons against non nuclear weapon States.

On 11 November 2008, Rear Admiral Muhammad Jawad signed the historic non legally binding Khawr Abd Allah Protocols or KAA Protocols at the Kuwait Naval Base.

However, at this stage it would be premature to speak of pushing for the drafting of a legally binding international instrument on the marking, tracing and brokering of small arms and light weapons.

The analysis was to be carried out in consultation with the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for an International Legally Binding Instrument for Implementing International Action on Certain Persistent Organic Pollutants.

Discussion among States parties on ways and means to strengthen the BWC is also ongoing and the issue of a legally binding protocol is still on the table.

The European Union recalls that it is working towards the adoption of a legally binding instrument on the identification and tracing of small arms and light weapons to supplement the United Nations Firearms Protocol.

There was also a pressing need for a legally binding multilateral instrument on security assurances, called for by both the 1995 and the 2000 Review Conferences.

Existing moratoria on nuclear tests are welcomed signs of restraint, but they can be terminated unilaterally and are no substitutes for a legally binding compact.

Recognizing the need for a multilaterally negotiated and legally binding instrument to assure non nuclear weapon States against the threat or use of nuclear weapons,

Recognizing the need for a multilaterally negotiated and legally binding instrument to assure non nuclear weapon States against the threat or use of nuclear weapons,

Recognizing the need for a multilaterally negotiated and legally binding instrument to assure non nuclear weapon States against the threat or use of nuclear weapons,

Recognizing the need for a multilaterally negotiated and legally binding instrument to assure non nuclear weapon States against the threat or use of nuclear weapons,

Recognizing the need for a multilaterally negotiated and legally binding instrument to assure non nuclear weapon States against the threat or use of nuclear weapons,

Recognizing the need for a multilaterally negotiated and legally binding instrument to assure non nuclear weapon States against the threat or use of nuclear weapons,

What we need is a legally binding international instrument that will regulate, control and monitor the illicit trade in small arms, including their transfer to non State actors.

(b) Commission on Human Rights, intersessional open ended working group mandated to elaborate a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearances

A legally binding international instrument on negative security assurances should be concluded with a view to removing the danger of the potential use of nuclear weapons, which is the main concern of non nuclear weapon States.

The most effective and sustainable way of strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention is through multilateral negotiations aimed at concluding a legally binding international instrument that allows for the verification of compliance with all its provisions.

The Firearms Protocol is the first legally binding instrument adopted at the global level and is designed largely to stem the flow of firearms from the licit to the illicit sector.

The elaboration of a regional legally binding instrument on the control of small arms and light weapons in the subregion was discussed, and it was agreed that the governmental experts meeting would consider the proposal formally.

Furthermore, a legally binding instrument on negative security assurances to non nuclear weapon States should be pursued as a matter of priority by the international community.

Desiring to achieve the objective of a legally binding prohibition of the development, production, testing, deployment, stockpiling, threat or use of nuclear weapons and their destruction under effective international control,

Desiring to achieve the objective of a legally binding prohibition of the development, production, testing, deployment, stockpiling, threat or use of nuclear weapons and their destruction under effective international control,

(e) Encourage States to apply the FAO Port State Model Scheme at the national and regional levels, promote its application through regional fisheries management organizations and consider the possibility of adopting a legally binding instrument

Option 4 A legally binding instrument such as a Stand alone Convention, open to participation by all or a large number of states that impose binding commitments accountability and may involve pre agreed sanctions

In Vanuatu international Conventions and Treaties have to be effected through domestic law and for CEDAW this was done through the Ratification Act No. 3 of 1995 which is binding on Vanuatu.